Hate Putin all we like. But look at the brainless leaders like our SCOMO, Bush, Obama, Trump, Boris Johnson, ... Some of them bothering on being clowns and monkeys ... It's funny but there were a group of women in Italy who idolised Putin as a real man, a man who practises the martial art, swim butterfly over a Russian lake in icy water, flies aeroplanes, ... a James Bond of the sort. Hate him as he made the ASX lose 70 billion dollars yesterday. God forbids but he might pull a big victory in Ukraine, shame the US and the West, pacify Ukraine, create greater Russia and become folklore in Russia. Trump is an idiot who yearns for the individual heroism that he is not born or cultivated for. The truth is that the West yearns for strong leaders but don't have any. And if there is a promising one, the system chops them down quickly before they get a chance to to do any thing good with conviction and courage.
Look at the Ukrainians! At the first sound of explosions, they jumped on cars and head out to the Polish border to escape. Zelensky had to declare martial law and ban all men from running away from the country. I remembered Crimea in 2014. A lot of Ukrainian soldiers quickly joined the Russian army! I would not be surprised if this happens again. Putin might just do what the Americans were too stupid to do in Iraq. They did not keep the Iraqi army and instead turned Iraqui soldiers into unemployed and beggars in their own country! So they rebelled, fought back and killed American soldiers. Putin already ordered the Russian army to treat the surrendering Ukrainian soldiers with respect. I bet he will keep them as the army of the new puppet regime he plans to set up.
Anyway. Sorry. Enough of ranting as I hate the immoral and hypocritical Western leaders we have who caused millions to die across the world in third world countries while they sell weapons across Africa, Mid-East, ... Somehow the lives of Europeans is worth infinitely more than those in third world countries.
I start to feel that WBC is now at a promising level to start entering slowly. The next leg up is probably coming and a dividend is on the way so it is likely to go up. But I learn from past experience and probably would exit before the dividend record day.
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